Or the commons daemon project's jsvc which can launch as root long enough to grab port 80 and then shift to an unprivileged user for normal runtime operations.
--David Peter Crowther wrote: >>From: Gaurav Kushwaha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>I read somewhere that if I want to run Tomcat standalone on >>port 80, I will >>have to run it as root and that this is potentially unsafe. >> >> > >True on UNIX, false on Windows. > > > >>Is there any way >>for me to run it on port 80 without having to give the root >>privileges to the process. >> >> > >The simplest I've found on most UNIXes is to use the firewall's >facilities to forward port 80/tcp to 8080/tcp. Set Tomcat up on 8080, >and incoming requests will arrive at Tomcat's port. > >If you do this, be aware that any code in Tomcat that writes URLs may do >the wrong thing unless you include the proxyPort attribute in your HTTP >connector config in server.xml: > > <Connector port="8080" proxyPort="80" .../> > >Hope this helps. > > - Peter > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
